Mrs. O’Mally, Down in the valley
Suffered from ulcers, I understand
She swallowed a cake, of Grandma’s LyeSoap
Now she’s got the cleanest ulcers in the land!

An older cousin used to play this for me on his banjo when I was 4 or 5, rendering me hystericlal. A linguistic revelation (after Mother Goose) that informed my life and love of languages.Relistening to it again now is sending me down memory lane.

I thought it would be interesting to st…. to adapt one of Lehrer’s lines to show you his type of humor: It’s people like Tom Lehrer who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

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